Malicious Office (OOXML) / .XLSM — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ceb6280d6468d6b8…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSM

431.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 14:03:52 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 15.0300 First seen: 2022-04-13
MD5: 6a728404491e18b8eb84830fbaad0b5b SHA-1: 5192f3f9d08d86aee18a6c4ccb0e0c1175dcd420 SHA-256: ceb6280d6468d6b88be01b20f41ccb504aa3dfed3ec62dc2a9e52893e2d54932
382 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The Workbook_Open macro executes a command using cmd.exe to download a batch file from http://20.40.97.94/t7b/loader/uploads/065754100.bat and then executes it. This indicates the file is a dropper designed to fetch and run a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 9

  • Shell() call in VBA critical OLE_VBA_SHELL
    Shell() call in VBA
  • LOLBin reference in VBA critical OLE_VBA_LOLBIN
    LOLBin reference in VBA
  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.EPPlus-9802867-2 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.EPPlus-9802867-2
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Workbook_Open macro high OLE_VBA_WBOPEN
    Workbook_Open macro
  • cmd.exe reference in VBA high OLE_VBA_CMD
    cmd.exe reference in VBA
  • Suspicious extracted artifact high EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.
  • VBA project inside OOXML medium OOXML_VBA
    Document contains vbaProject.bin — VBA macros present
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://20.40.97.94/t7b/loader/uploads/065754100.bat

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7454c31be291e59f68da2d7f599fd0c1961c0f44e5fb2c36052f2483305bcba4		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source from OOXML) 1134 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved macro source contains an auto-exec entry point and execution/download terms.
vbaProject_00.bin
09f095415c3f0b9cdca49bfa7a6d64c18a48e1965eb0640297e1e7c834d49297		 vba-project OOXML VBA project: xl/vbaProject.bin 5632 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.EPPlus-9802867-2
Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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